book recommendations
The books listed here are in no particular order but all books by an author are grouped together. This list only contains books that I both enjoyed and would be willing to recommend.
Fiction
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Pillars of the Earth
Lolita
A Tale of Two Cities
Theft of Swords
Rise of Empire
Heir of Novron
Dune
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
Silverwing
Sunwing
Firewing
Darkwing
The Worthing Saga
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
Rendezvous with Rama
Rama II
The Garden of Rama
Rama Revealed
American Gods
Red Storm Rising
Rainbow Six
The Hunt for Red October
The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Clear and Present Danger
The Sum of All Fears
Without Remorse
Debt of Honor
Executive Orders
The Bear and the Dragon
The Martian
Iliad
Leviathan Wakes
Dark Matter
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Casino Royale
Watership Down
The Invisible Heart
Flowers for Algernon
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Player of Games
Consider Phlebas
Use of Weapons
State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Three Body Problem
The Dark Forest
Death’s End
non-fiction
America's Secret War
Fat Girl - Judith Moore
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Slack: ... and the Myth of Total Efficiency
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
The Beatles - Bob Spitz
A Room Full of Mirrors
Makers: The New Industrial Revolution
Start Something That Matters
How Not to Be Wrong
Sleep: The Myth of 8 Hours
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
The Art of Learning
Saipens
Life 3.0
12 Rules for Life
The Bitcoin Standard
The Courage to Be Disliked
A Book of 5 Rings
River out of Eden
The Cave and the Light
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars
The Coddling of the American Mind
How To Stop Worrying and Start Living
What Every BODY Is Saying
The Ride of a Lifetime - Iger
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Ben Franklin: An American Life
Conversations of Socrates
Revolution 1989
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
The Hobbit
Shades Children
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
1984
The Time Machine
The Great Gatsby
Tender Is the Night
Watchmen
The Catcher in the Rye
I, Robot
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Nine Princes in Amber
The Guns of Avalon
Sign of the Unicorn
The Hand of Oberon
The Courts of Chaos
A Game of Thrones
A Clash of Kings
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
A Dance with Dragons
The Hedge Knight
The Sworn Sword
The Mystery Knight
Cryptonomicon
Snow Crash
Anathem
Seveneves
Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
Stories of Your Life and Others
Exhalation: Stories
Ready Player One
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Ubik
Electric Dreams
Earth Abides
Shogun
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
The Mysterious Island
The Gunslinger
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
God's Debris
Infinite Jest
The Graveyard Book
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Crystal Shard
Foundation
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
The Way of Kings
Neuromancer
Gates of Fire
Blame!
Ringworld
The Black Company
We Are Legion (We are Bob)
For We Are Many
All these Worlds
The 4-hour Workweek
How to Measure Anything
Zero to One
The Lean Startup
Business Adventures
A Brief History of Time
The Tipping Point
Einstein: His Life and Universe
How to Have a Good Day
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
The Complacent Class
The War of Art
Influence - Cialdini
Bit by Bit: How P2P is Freeing the World
Fooled By Randomness
The Black Swan
Antifragile
Skin in the Game
Elon Musk - Vance
The Rational Optimist
The Elephant in the Brain
Hackers and Painters
The New Right
Loserthink
Cosmos
It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work
The Joys of Living
Skunkworks
Cartoon History of the Universe Pt. 1
Cartoon History of the United States
Inadequate Equilibria